Hello its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your days going well and youll be able to join me tonight on BBC One at six thirty for all the days news, including more on the row over county council plans to change charges for people requiring care at home. There have of course been protests over this, and its an issue that will affect lots of people.
We reveal how people in Boston are helping to train the next generation of Bobbies on the beat, and theres more misery for Ferensway traders. We'll be speaking to businesses on the brink of closure due to continuing road works. I think a lot of people have been affected by this, theres also been road closures and traffic problems that arent helping the situation Also on the programme tonight, find out what you can do to protect you property from flooding. And lastly well be telling you how you can help Father Christmas deliver joy this festive season. Its getting closer to Christmas every day, and I expect Santa needs all the help he can get! And also Paul will be here with the weather forecast as usual. Plus well have the rest of the days stories all at half past six tonight on BBC One. Emails Thanks for all the emails on a variety of subjects and also for those whove written to say how much they enjoyed our special night for Children In Need on Sunday at the Hull Truck Theatre. Weve had some lovely emails in, so thank you for those, and heres to the next time! And dont forget the big Children in Need night on the television starts at seven o clock on Friday night on BBC One. Our big party for Pudsey is being held at The Deep if you can make it down sometime after seven. Bring you cheques, small or big, and your loose change along on Friday night, and watch out on BBC One for all the television coverage throughout the week. Silly Season The silly season of stories is normally some time in the summer when theres no other news, but what about this one for a tug of war which is raging over the humble pasty. Of course the Cornish claim that they invented the tasty treat wrapped up in pastry, but now there are calls for it to be renamed the Devonshire pasty following the discovery of a 500 year old recipe in the neighbouring county which pre-dates the earliest Cornish equivalent by nearly 250 years. It details the ingredients: flour, pepper, venison, and calculates the cost of the items and the labour involved. Well whatever they might say, I cant imagine anyone taking on the Cornish and winning at any level! It will always remain the Cornish Pasty, certainly in my eyes. And if youve never had a proper Cornish pasty, get yourself to the county and try one. They are just so scrummy. And none of the things that you buy around here bear any resemblance to a proper Cornish pasty. Im a Celebrity Yes its back. The discussion in offices all over the UK is going to be about the programme. It started again last night at nine o clock. Did I watch? No I didnt, so I cant even comment on it, but already people are talking about it, so presumably were going to have that Im a Celebrity saturation for the next few weeks. Blueberries Well going up not Blueberry Hill but Blueberry bill! Blueberrys are suddenly becoming very trendy, and being snapped up in record quantities. Basically health conscious people in this country have been buying the berries in a bid to stave off colds and flu. The surging popularity follows reports that blueberries can even stave off cholesterol, while boosting vitamin C levels. Theyre also seen as an ideal healthy snack due to their low glycemic index, or GI rating, meaning theyre broken down slowly by the body with energy released gradually rather than in a sugar rush. And annual sales, now £48 million, are up 80% in the past year. Farmers are switching to the fruit instead of more traditional crops in order to keep up with demand. So there we are, blueberries, are up 80% on the previous year. Apparently theyre jam packed full of vitamin C and anti-oxidants which help prevent illness. If you want them, they are in a shop near you, but probably not particularly cheap. Katherine Our guest on the programme last Friday week was Katherine Jenkins. Her album came out a week ago, last Monday. We talked about it when we came on the programme, and of course she sung for the Remembrance Day service. Her album came out on the Monday, and by the following chart this weekend, its gone straight in to number five. Its just extraordinary what she manages to do, and I have to say, having got every one of her albums, the latest is by far the best. Katherine Jenkins Serenade is the title, and thats gone straight in at number five in the album charts at the moment. Wind Turbines Theyre on sale at £1,500 in DIY stores, they are wind turbines, and even the environmental campaigners are attacking those, can you believe, as a trendy green fashion statement that generates barely enough power for a hair dryer. So say the environmental campaigners. The must have home improvements are selling in their thousands to people eager to flaunt their green credentials, but critics say that claims the turbines can cut house hold electricity bills by 30% are optimistic for most people, and they may do more harm than good. As well as being noisy and unsightly, they say the turbines rarely produce much electricity. And this is from environmental campaigners. They say they do nothing to tackle greenhouse gasses, and are not even among the ten ways recommended by the government to save energy. So there we are, you perhaps expect them to think and say the opposite to that, but anyway, they are on sale at the moment, and they reckon there are orders of 15,000 of the turbi! nes at £1,500 each ahead of Christmas. Fans of the wind turbines include the Conservative leader David Cameron, who plans to install one in his west London home, and also television chef Jamie Oliver has one as well. But Friends of the Earth are saying that there are other more practical, if less fashionable ways of saving energy. Well thats it from me today, join me tonight on BBC One at six thirty. Have a very good afternoon and thank you for reading, bye. Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
